The “Southern Avenger,” who apparently writes a column for an alt-weekly in Charleston, is dismayed with Mike Huckabee’s lack of conservative credo — how the Ric Flair endorsement cloaks the tax-hiking libbral in a tough guy’s robes. This is some kind of video, folks, and includes the line: “It’s amazing the degree to which my childhood squabbles now mirror my adult life.” [YouTube]

Mike Huckabee appeared with champion endorser and lady-beater extraordinaire Ric Flair this weekend at the South Carolina-Clemson football game, where they drank, ate, maybe beat up some chicks. Or maybe espoused Huckabee’s demented plan to kill income taxes and make the sales tax monstrously regressive. Who knows! Whatever the case, Ric Flair was sure to add his two cents: “Just remember that the first part of ‘Whooo, pig, sooie!’ is ‘Whooo!’” Yeah… hooray for… Team A? [AP/Yahoo]

Ric “The Nature Boy” Flair — an eight-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Champion, six-time WCW Champion, two-time WWE Champion and winner of the 1992 “Royal Rumble” — has endorsed Mike Huckabee. Suddenly Chuck Norris’ endorsement looks like Abraham fucking Lincoln’s.

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From rural Mexico to our crumbling ghettos, nothing amuses folks like a vicious fight between chickens or pit bulls. That’s why Washington’s beloved World Wildlife Federation is now holding virtual animal fights! Also, it’s a really odd way to tie wildlife conservation to, uhm, the Super Bowl.

We’ve always wondered if it was an accident that the panda-loving lobbyists shared “WWF” with the World Wrestling Federation. MORE »